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Tuesday, November 19, 2013

John Kerry: A World Class Doofus

By Alan
Caruba

Recently,
in the wake of another diplomatic disaster for the Obama regime, Secretary of
State John Kerry said, “We are not blind and I don’t think we’re stupid.”He and the President may not think they’re stupid,
but the leaders of nations around the world most certainly do.

In a
recent Wall Street Journal commentary by Brett Stephens, titled the “Axis of Fantasy vs. Axis of Reality”, he cited the French rejection of the negotiations
with the Iranians, saying “the French also understand that the sole reason Iran
has a nuclear program is to build a nuclear weapon…This now puts the French at
the head of a de facto Axis of Reality, the other prominent members of which
are Saudi Arabia and Israel. In this Axis, strategy is not a game of World of
Warcraft conducted via avatars in a virtual reality.”

Stephens
said of Kerry’s remark on Meet the Press, “When you’ve reached the ‘don’t call
me stupid’ stage of diplomacy, it means the rest of the world has your number.”

The
Secretary of State carries out the President’s foreign policies, but when both
are ideologically blind to reality and both harbor a deep disdain for an
American history of global leadership since the end of World War Two, they are
going to initiate and stumble around in ways that convince other nations to
seek leadership elsewhere or to pursue they own interests without looking to
the U.S. for support.

John Kerry
has one of the worst records imaginable to be our Secretary of State. I have
always regarded him as a moron with strong anti-American beliefs. I shudder to
think he was the Democratic Party’s candidate for President in 2004, losing to
George W. Bush who thankfully had previously defeated Al Gore. Two worse
candidates for the presidency are hard to imagine.

Kerry
first came to my attention and that of most Americans when he testified on
April 22, 1971 before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, claiming that
American veterans of the Vietnam War had committed war crimes that were “not
isolated incidents but crimes committed on a day-to-day basis with the full
awareness of officers at all levels.” Kerry had, at that point, become a
spokesman and organizer for the group, Vietnam Veterans Against the War.
Towards that end, he was working closely with people, many of whom could only
be described as revolutionary Communists.

A lot of
my generation opposed the Vietnam War in the belief it was the wrong war in the
wrong place, mostly the result of Lyndon Johnson’s bad judgment. It would cost
our nation more than 50,000 lives of those who were sent into that grinder. We
did not see it as an excuse to lie about their participation, comparing them to
barbarian hordes. Kerry said at the time, “We cannot fight Communism all over
the world and I think we should have learned that lesson by now.” The U.S.,
however, did not stop resisting Communism and, in 1991, the Soviet Union would
collapse as just one result of the resolve.

Like most
liberals, Kerry has a long record of embracing the worst dictators of the
modern era. As early as May 1970 Kerry met with North Vietnamese/Viet Cong
delegations at the Paris Peace talks to discuss various proposals, an action
even Kerry acknowledged was “on the borderline of private individuals
negotiating, etc.” It was, in fact, conduct prohibited by the Uniform Code of
Military Justice. Now, as Secretary of State he gets to negotiate for the U.S.;
most recently with the Iranians.

In a
commentary, “Kerry: Stay Home”, Prof. Israel Hayom, director of the Begin-Sadat
Center for Strategic Studies and a fellow at the Middle East Forum, wrote “the
prism of the Obama administration on the Middle East and global affairs is
fundamentally flawed. An American policy that supports the Muslim Brotherhood,
estranges its traditional Arab allies such as Egypt and Saudi Arabia, allows
Iran to get closer to the bomb, sees in Turkey’s Erdogan a great friend of the
West, and insists that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict can be ended in nine
months is dangerous and does more damage than good. Similar complaints about
poor U.S. political judgment are abundantly voiced by America’s friends in
Asian and Eastern European capitols.”

“It is the
enemies of the U.S. who rejoice in President Barack Obama’s foreign policy and
who relish in America’s perceived decline in world affairs.”

A recent
example of the fumbling that passes for foreign policy by the President and the
Secretary of State was seen in Obama’s threat to attack Syria in the wake of
its use of poison gas. It is useful to know that Kerry had met with Syria’s
dictator, Bashar Assad, on more than one occasion and, as a Senator, had worked
to undermine the Bush administration’s efforts to isolate Assad.

In
February 2009, days after Obama’s inauguration, Kerry was sent to Syria to
establish a new relationship. He would make five trips there between 2009 and
2011. After a passionate speech on August 30 advocating the President’s
proposed military action against Syria, Obama decided to seek congressional
approval before taking any action. Kerry looked every bit the fool he was and
is. As it turned out, it was the Russians that saved their bacon, stepping in
to expedite the destruction of the Syrian poison gas arsenal.

Suffice to
say, Kerry and Obama are wrong on virtually every aspect of foreign relations
currently confronting the nation. One cannot finish this brief review, however,
without noting Kerry’s view that “climate change” is “as dangerous as any of
the sort of real crises that we talk about.” He has been a longtime advocate of
“cap-and-trade” programs to reduce so-called greenhouse gas emissions. There is
no “global warming” and the Earth has been a cooling cycle since around 1998.

This
capacity to ignore the facts, whether it is about the idiotic belief that
humans can or should do anything about the climate or that the Iranians will
say anything to continue their pursuit of nuclear weapons that makes Kerry a
very dangerous, world class doofus in charge of implementing Obama’s equally
foolish foreign policies.

Smarter
men than the obsequious John Kerry have abandoned their allies and even started
wars. He is in a position to do a great deal of harm, not just to the U.S.,
but worldwide.

2 comments:

In 1970 while stationed at Arlington Hall Virginia as a young soldier, I observed John Kerry and his anti-war Vietnam Veterans (it later turned out that few of them had even served in the military) in action on Capitol Hill.

Kerry (a complete stranger to me then) and the rest of his mob impressed me as being typical ignorant Leftist filth, we saw so much of that year, and words cannot describe the contempt most of us in my Military Intelligence unit felt for these long haired, sinking, lice infected and usually dope smoking bums.

It's interesting how the Left always paints the Right as being stupid, but my experience indicates the opposite.

What truly is scary about these two blithering idiots is they actually believe they have the intelligence to accomplish wonders in either of these jobs. Kerry has no moral foundation nor does his boss. Is it any wonder the world's leaders are laughing at them? Dumb as dirt. What could be more frightening than people like these two with positions of responsibility? Well, one thing is sure. These two have solidified their membership in “The Club For the Galacticly Stupid”, so long as they remember Nancy Pelosi is President.

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